Pocket pencil and pen holder.



PATENTED' FEB. 28, 1905.

J. V. PILGHBR.

POCKET PENCIL AND PEN HOLDER.

APPLICATION FILED APR. 30, 1904.

(7l/@Humanas UrsiTsn STaTns Patented. February 28, 1905.

JOHN V. PILCHER, 0F LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY.,

POCKET PENCIL AND PEN HOLEH..

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 783,461, dated February 28, 1905.

ApplicatiouIiletlApril30,1904. Serial No. 205,761.

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ile it known that l, JOHN V. PILOT-IER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Louisville, in the county of Jefferson and State of Kentucky, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Pocket Pencil and Pen Holders; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the'annexed drawings, making' a part of this specilication, and to the letters of reference marked thereon.

'.lhe present invention has for its object to provide a pocket pencil and pen holder in which may he held a large pencil or fountainren and a small pencil side by side with the i ramo security, thrrebv placing' upon the marhet a .simple and practical holder that may be used with equal convenience in securing the article, such as a pencil or pen of whatever diameter or both of unequal diameters, within the same pocket and with unil'orm pressure.

The invention consists in a pocket pencil and pen holder constructed substantially as shown in the drawings and hereinafter described and claimed.

Figure l of the drawings is a perspective view showing my improved holder secured in the pocket of a vest and a pencil and fountainpen of different diameters held therein; Fig. Q. a sectional elevation thereof; Fig. 3, a perspective View of the holder; Fig. 4, a similar view of the wire frame of the holder.

In the accompanying drawings,A represents a springwire frame, and B the covering therefor, of leather, cloth, or other suitable material found best adapted to the purpose, and is open at both top and bottom and provided with a flap (t at its upper end, the covering being preferably lined with plush or other suitable soft material, the spring-wire fram'e and the covering therefor forming .together the holder for the pencil or pen, or for both, as may be required. The wire frame A and covering' B are not permanently7 secured together; but the frame simply slips into the covering by extending outwardly the crosswire on a differently vertical plane than the upright wires c, so that the frame will beheld from working upwardly out of the covering and retained in place therein. rI`he upright wires c terminate in inwardly extending clamping-arms d, which arms not only extend inwardly, but at an acute angle to the upright wires c and outwardly atan angle to the plane of the wires and terminate in curved bearing-lingers e, which are designed to press upon the pocket of the vest in an inward direction.

The pocket of the vest is indicated at X, and

-the upright pencil and pen, respectively, are

indicated at Y Z, the clamping-arms holding them securely in the pocket of the vest by an independent inward pressure thereof. The rigid wire of the frame A, which eX- tends across the bottom of the pocket, causes the pencil or pen to press closely against the inner side thereof,the covering B forming both a front and back to the frame, which join or are connected together at the sides and which, together with the upright wires,form a stretching medium for the covering.

The presser or clamping arms Z act independently of cach other, and consequently pencils or pens of different diameters may be held side by side with uniform pressure, the arm adapting itself to the diameter of the pencil or pen held thereby, as shown in Fig. l of the drawings. It is evident that the importance of these independently operating clamping-arms in this class of devices will be at once apparent, and to make it further clear as to the advantage of the independently-operating arms reference is made te Fig. 1 of the drawings, the clamping-arm being pressed out by the pen Z and the opposite clamping-arm pressing inwardly on the pencil Y, which is much smaller in diameter.

Having now fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

A pocket pencil and pen holdercomprising a wire frame and a covering therefor, said frame having the cross-bar at the lower end ofthe frame curved outwardly and having at its upper end outwardly-curved and independ- In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

JOHN V. PILCHER.

Witnesses;

CHARLES F. LEATHERS, A. Gr. STITH. 

